DILI: The Ministry of Social Solidarity has made available 900 tonnes of subsidised rice for rice-growing farming families in districts where crops were destroyed last year, as national rice prices soar by up to 50 per cent.

DILI – Timor-Leste’s Major General Lere Anan Timur has cautioned against the Catholic Church playing a mediator role in political disagreements, declaring mediation a legal affair.